Carraroe

An Cheathrú Rua [ əçæ ː ɾ̥ ˠ hu ː ˌ ɾ ˠ u ː ə ] ( old spelling ( before 1945 ): On Cheathramhadh Ruadh, anglicised: Carraroe or Carrowroe ) is a village on a peninsula between the bays Cuan to Fhir Mhoir and Cuan Chasla in county Galway, Ireland. It covers the townlands An Cheathrú Thuaidh Rua, Rua An Cheathrú Thea, Barr Doire and to Caorán Beag. It is the Gaeltachtregion Connemara. The vernacular is as in neighboring Casla the Connacht dialect of Irish. Therefore has official status only, the Irish name An Cheathrú Rua.

An Cheathrú Rua is famous for its Galway Hookers mentioned boats. Spreads are mainly Baid mhóra ( " large boats " ) and leathbháid ( " half- boats" ), formerly used to transport peat from the bogs of Connemara, the Aran Islands and the region of Boireann ( Burren ) in County Clare because peat in these areas does not occur. This tradition ( meeting of boats) alive every year at the festival Cruinniú na mBáid again. The smaller fishing boats of the region are called gleoiteoga. Each year on the last Monday in August also held the sailing regatta at Féile Dóilín.

The sheltered beach at Trá Dóilín ( engl. Coral Beach ) is a beach on the west coast to Cheathrú Ruas, who is unlike his English name not of coral remnants, but from mineralized deposits of red algae.

Add to Cheathrú Rua are the summer Colleges Coláiste Chiaráin and Coláiste Cholumba. Here students from all over Ireland to spend their summer holidays to improve their Irish language skills while they are housed in native language families. Opened in 1977, Áras Uí Mháirtín Chadhain ( " Máirtín Ó Cadhain House" ) is one of lying in the Gaeltacht centers of Oifig na Gaeilge Labhartha ( " Office of spoken Irish language ") of the National University of Ireland, Galway. It was named after the Irish writer Máirtín Ó Cadhain.

The Irish name An Cheathrú Rua means "the brown-red district ".